Abstract

MARQUEZ CARRASCO, Carmen  and  ORTEGA RAMIREZ, Juan A. COVID-19 and the challenges of digital surveillance for human rights: analysis of the app DataCOVID foreseen in the Ministerial Order SND/29/2020, of March 27th. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2020, n.50, pp.205-220.  Epub Nov 23, 2020. ISSN 1886-5887.

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the fragility of the globalized world and is being fought through a combination of techniques and tools, among which new contact tracing technologies play a fundamental role. These new tracking technologies have sparked the current great European debate on privacy. One of its manifestations is Order SND/29/2020, of March 27, approved by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Spain, which provides for the development of a website and a contact tracing app DataCOVID. This work aims at examining the legality and scope of the measures adopted in the Ministerial Order considering its implications for the respect of the right to privacy and data protection from the perspective of human rights guarantees.

Keywords : COVID-19; new technologies; digital monitoring; contact tracing; right to privacy; protection of personal data; limitations of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

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